2023-05-21 08:19:00
“I am satisfied with the mobilization of buyers for our animal cause”, confides, yesterday at the end of the day, Patrick Violas, the boss of the zoo-refuge La Tanière, after five hours of auction of nearly 200 lots, Saturday 20 May 2023.
The event, which could be repeated, brought in around €34,000. This will allow the purchase of medical equipment. From the first lot, the tone of the afternoon was set with a succession of auctions for the polystyrene sculpture of a gorilla, sold for €340.
A small lull offered the possibility for small budgets to spend 30 to 45 € for linocuts, acrylic canvases for 80 € or even drawings for 60 €. The one hundred and fifty people seated in a barn at La Tanière and the 350 participants in the live on the internet then competed for more expensive objects, such as a sculpture of a cow sold for €170, another representing a horse at €330 and a voucher. gift of one night for two people at the Castel de Maintenon for €260. The digitally printed photo of a tiger from La Tanière by Franck Guedj was sold for €680 after an initial bid of €300. Patrick Violas saw his red motorbike, a Yamaha DTLC 125cc, find a buyer for €500. Bidders then went wild for an oil on canvas depicting two donkeys. This work, starting price at €180, was bought for €1,000 by a person on the live.
Gipsy, the camel from the zoo-refuge La Tanière, near Chartres, is dead
Some bidders did not have an adversary, such as the motor racing enthusiast who acquired the Paris-Dakar combination autographed by its owner, driver Guerlain Chicherit. He bet €400 and no one bet.
The Violas spouses offered a personalized tour of La Tanière with access to places prohibited to the public. It was sold for €1,000! Faced with this success and the disappointment of some, the couple improvised by offering two other visits. Two people obtained them by paying respectively 900 and 1,000 €. Other sales were the subject of financial duels: a gold and diamond Chaumet watch (€780), a gold/diamond/ruby/sapphire bracelet (€950), the two VIP tickets for Renaud’s concert (€450 €), a Vuitton handbag (€480), a lion’s canvas (€500), the two VIP tickets to a Florence Foresti show (€450), the two VIP concert tickets for Mylène Farmer (€850) , the two guitars signed by Jean-Louis Aubert (950 and 900 €)… The biggest sale was a resin bear by Orlinski sold for 1,600 €.
Thanks to donations, the zoo-refuge La Tanière has recovered 85% of the 2 million euros needed to settle its debts
The Violas spouses have reserved a surprise for the participants by offering paintings made, with edible paint, by monkeys and elephants. These unique and original paintings were sold between 130 and 680 €! An object, which arrived the same morning, was not in the catalog: a signed jersey of footballer Marcelo who played for Real Madrid was sold for €500. A Portuguese Ronaldo jersey did not arrive on time for this sale.
During the sale, Patrick Violas confided: “Soon you will see new animals that look like the works you see, or are from the same family. There is one that weighs only a few pounds but its weight will be much more substantial adult. He comes from afar. I’m waiting for the plane to take off to talk about it”. Two wolves will arrive soon to form a pack with the two males of La tanière.
Thierry Delaunay
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